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Show Plot to Destroy Ogden Factory & S3 a Floating Bomb Found in Canal THE bomb found floating in the Wilson canal and its two and a half feet of unburned fuse. Left to right M. S. j Moore, watchman, who found the bomb; Sheriff H. C. Peterson I and F. T. Flinders. i Infernal Machine Discovered Discov-ered by Watchman for Sugar Company. Special to Tho Tribune. 0GDEN. De.-. 21. Tho belief that a deliberate attempt tvaa made duriuf; tho past few days, perhaps per-haps hours, to destroy one of OKdeu'B principal food producing plants lias resulted from the discovery discov-ery this raoruiug of a floating bomb in the Wilson irrigation canal, from which a supply of water is obtained for the Ogden factory of tho Amalgamated Sugar Su-gar company. Investigation by a chemist chem-ist has developed tho fact that tho infernal in-fernal machine contained enough nitroglycerin nitro-glycerin or giant powder, ammonia nitrate ni-trate and black powder to have demolished de-molished the plant. Water for the canal is taken from the Weber river at the Twenty-fourth street bridge, the. ditch covering a course of two or three miles to the sugar factory, directly west. While patroling the canal this morning M. S. Moore, a watchman for the canal company, com-pany, discovered tho bomb floating on the surface of the water about half a mile west-of the Twenty-fourth street bridge. With the assistance, of F. T. Flinders, who happened to be passing in an automobile, the watchman removed re-moved the object from the canal and brought it to the sheriff's office in this city. From outside appearance the infernal infer-nal machine was a cylinder about ten inches long and. two and a half inches in diameter, securely wrapped with waterproof brown paper. The paper was glued at every fold and wound with many feet of stout twine. Protruding Pro-truding from one. end was a fuse about two and a half feet in length, also wrapped in waterproof paper, and about three inches of charred fuse showed at the end. It was evident that the fuse had been lighted but had failed to burn more than a few inches inside the paper covering, The entire bomb, including fuse, weighed nearly three pounds. Had Three Cylinders. Taking the bomb outside of tlie building, Sheriff H. C. Peterson and Deputy C. P. Fitzgerald removed the outer covering of paper. The bomb was found to be made up of three distinct dis-tinct cylinders, each made of brown j cardboard and wrapped in many folds of paper and twine. Each cylinder i rested on top of the other and a Kmall cylinder or fuso packed with black powder extended from the two lower cylinders into the contents of the one above. Along one side of tho cylinders there was an air chamber running the full length of the bomb and formed by stiff i cardboard, overlaid and glued with j heavy waterproof paper. It was this j chamber which kept the device afloat 1 in the canal. Beneath the lower cylinder cylin-der was also a half inch thickness of i black 7owder. The outside fuse was directly connected with the top cylin- 1 fler, containing about a tracupful of small black powder. Extending from this cylinder through the air chamber and connecting with the other two, as well as the black powder layer at the bottom, was a smaller auxiliary fuse, such as might be found on ('liinese fireworks. Sheriff Peterson was able to determine deter-mine the contents of the bomb as to the black powder, hut he sought, the services of V. D. t'hilds, chemist for the Amalgamated Sugar company, in .letermi ni ng the contents of the other two cylinders. The mid. tie cylinder was found to contain one of the mnf powerful forms of nitroglycerin or j giant powder, the large compressed 'cubes being of clay color. (Iicinit !('hilds determined from hip tests that jthe third or bottom cylinder contained a pound of ammonia nitrate, another ! powerful expio-ivo, which was in the ! form of creeuMi -ubes. it is the belie;' of ,tb the officers ! an I eiiemi-t that the black powder tit I both tin' lop and bottom was ii-ed merely for the purpose of exploding tiic more powerful glycerin and nitrate. No Clew to Perpetrator. In l.i work the bombmnkor ha? ued portion of a n.".v!aper for wrappings, and tiie small portion wlii-h can be nc-cipiicre-1 iiidi.-i't" that it i.- a .Now York publication. On other parts of the bomb were pieces of a red-coated sticker, showing that the explosives proi.aV.lv had been obtained from a (Continued oa Fags Tllree.) . PLOT TO DESTROY FACTORY Iff 0 (Continued from Page One.) (lalifornia manufacturing concern. There was nothing else which might furnish a clew to the officers. Due to the fact that the machine was equipped with an air chamber, the sheriff and his deputies are inclined to the theory that tho bomb was placed in the canal for the purpose of either damaging the sugar factory or the lieadirate near the plant, by which a supply of water is secured for the beet mill. It is highly improbable that the floating bomb would have been expected to pass through the bars and factory intake at the headgate, but had it lodged against the headgate and exploded it would have been necessary to close down the mill for a time until the supply of water was aain obtainable. obtain-able. It is not considered probable that the bomb had been prepared to destroy the plant of the Ogden Packing & Provision Pro-vision company, located near the intake of tho canal on the Weber river, for here would havo been no necessity for the air chamber. The discovery of the device, however, has awakened all local lo-cal food producing companies to the necessity of maintaining a rigid guard around their plants at all times. It will be remembered that about four months ago a bomb was found on ton of the main nine line. thrnucrh which Ihe Ogden supply is obtained near the foothills to the east of the city. This bomb, which contained six sticks of dynamite, had two and a half feet of mino fuso attached, but, owing to the fact. that, there was a "ltink" or break in the fuse, it hail burned out within a few inches of the cud after being lighted, and houce the bomb was uol exploded. Had it exploded it would have put the big water supply line out of commission com-mission and the town would have been without water until the break could have been repaired. No arrests were made in connection with the bomb. , although officers worked on the case for a long period. |
